Word: upper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country that the editors of TIME and I like to think that we, along with much of the daily press, can associate ourselves with this progressive step. The House of Representatives passed the bill that authorizes some $750 million for the construction of power and reclamation projects in the Upper Colorado River Basin (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
After last week's decisive vote in the Congress, we are sure we share with many other, editors and publishers across the nation a sense of gratification that an informed public opinion helped to bring the Upper Colorado River Basin development to the verge of reality...
...Bonn the old Chancellor glowered. His local defeat had national repercussions: seats in the federal upper house are chosen by the local governments. He was thus deprived of North Rhine-Westphalia's five votes there, and lost his two-thirds majority in the Bundesrat. Adenauer needs the two-thirds majority to put through constitutional changes permitting German rearmament...
...Peru, Brigadier General Marcial Merino rebelled with his 10,000-man Jungle Division on the upper Amazon (TIME, Feb. 27), and said, in effect, to the country's other garrison commanders: "I move that we overthrow President Manuel Odria." Strongman Odria hastily shifted several doubtful generals out of high command. By last weekend it was clear to Merino that no one was going to second his motion. In a voice choked with suita ble emotion, he surrendered to the government by long-distance telephone from his headquarters in the river port of Iquitos, then took asylum in the Brazilian...
...missiles are fueled with alcohol and liquid oxygen and presumably controlled by electronic computers on the ground. The filmed sequence, shown last week on NBC, starts (bottom left) as the missile heads skyward, powered by wraparound booster rockets, which begin to fall off (upper left) as the missile reaches top speed. The missile then cuts in its second power supply (top right) and races on to meet the target aircraft...